659 So. 2d 93 - Cooper v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]here the language in a restrictive covenant is clear and unambiguous, it will be given its manifest meaning, but its construction will not be extended by implication to include anything not plainly prohibited.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 723 So. 2d 1288 - Gebauer v. Lake Forest Property Owners Ass'n · 961 So. 2d 141 - Smith v. Ledbetter

2. “"Brian Nelson, the developer and author of the restrictions, testified that his intent in drafting the subdivision restriction was to restrict further subdivision and resale of the lots and not to restrict the use of a lot to one single-family dwelling. Further testimony by Nelson revealed, as to another lot he had sold in the general area, subject to substantially the same restrictions, two families were living on the lot in separate dwellings."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 961 So. 2d 141 - Smith v. Ledbetter

3. “`Mobile homes shall be allowed on lots or parcels only in the half of the property of greatest distance from the property's primary road frontage.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 961 So. 2d 141 - Smith v. Ledbetter